Scientists Find Way To Unboil Egg

January 29, 2015 2:35 PM

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LOS ANGELES (CBS Sacramento) – Science has yet to find a way to un-break an egg…but it is getting closer to unboiling one.

“Yes, we have invented a way to unboil a hen egg,” boasted Gregory Weiss, a chemistry professor at UC Irvine. “In our paper, we describe a device for pulling apart tangled proteins and allowing them to refold. We start with egg whites boiled for 20 minutes at 90 degrees Celsius and return a key prot...